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Hurricane Hanna was a moderately powerful but deadly tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage across the Western Atlantic, mostly in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the East Coast of the United States. The eighth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
The 2008 hurricane season officially began on June 1, [22] though Tropical Storm Arthur formed one day earlier. [23] The season was above-average, featuring 16 named storms, 8 of which intensified into hurricanes, while 5 of the hurricanes reached major hurricane status. [ 24 ]
The season officially began on June 1, 2008, and ended on November 30, 2008, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin. [3] The season's first storm, Tropical Storm Arthur , formed on May 30, and the last, Hurricane Paloma , dissipated on November 10.
Tropical Storm Hanna, the third active named storm and eighth of the Atlantic hurricane season, is on its way to Texas. Crossing the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Hanna followed in Tropical Storm ...
Hurricane Hanna roared ashore onto the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 1 storm on Saturday, bringing winds that lashed the shoreline with rain and storm surge, and even threatening to bring ...
The 2008 North Indian cyclone season was one of the most disastrous tropical cyclone seasons in modern history, with tropical cyclones leaving more than 140,000 people dead and causing more than US$15 billion in damage, making it the costliest season in the North Indian Ocean, until it was made second in 2020. The IMD monitored a total of ten ...
Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Hanna in Kew Garden Hills as it makes landfall over Long Island on September 6. See also: 2008 Atlantic hurricane season September 6, 2008: Hurricane Hanna makes landfall on Long Beach as a tropical storm with wind gusts of 52 mph (84 km/h) at Shinnecock Inlet .
Tropical Storm Isidore making its Louisiana landfall. September 26, 2002 – Hurricane Isidore makes landfall just west of Grand Isle as a Tropical Storm with winds of 65 mph (105 km/h), having significantly weakened after stalling over the Yucatán Peninsula. [21] Rainfall is widespread across the state, peaking at 15.97 in (406 mm) in Metarie ...